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Leeds Town Hall is a 19th-century municipal building on The Headrow (formerly Park Lane), Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.Planned to include law courts, a council chamber, offices, a public hall, and a suite of ceremonial rooms, it was built between 1853 and 1858 to a design by the architect Cuthbert Brodrick.
The Leeds Festival Chorus was first formed in 1858 (the year Queen Victoria opened the Leeds Town Hall) to sing at the first Leeds Musical Festival, and was reformed for each succeeding one, potential singers being auditioned from choirs in Leeds and surrounding areas. The Chorus became independent in 1985.
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus is a leading choir in Europe, regularly performing to professional standards with internationally renowned soloists, orchestras and conductors.. As well as traditional concerts in Leeds Town Hall, the Chorus has toured and performed in many other prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, The ...
The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra performed at the Royal Albert Hall in March 1950. The orchestra – YSO – was founded in 1947 by the West Riding of Yorkshire.Funding for the YSO was unique as it was achieved from a multiplicity of local authorities, with notable support from the Leeds Corporation which funded the YSO with £40,000 a year to keep it going with a strength of 50 musicians.
Across a term of 12 weeks, the choir prepares for a large concert at various venues including Sheffield City Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, and Leeds Town Hall. The concerts are often supported by the Sheffield Pops Orchestra and have featured guest soloists such as Lance Ellington and Jonathan Ansell. [2]
To Leeds, With Love will be shown in the city centre until 22 December [Pro Audio Systems] An animated Christmas story is set to be projected onto a Leeds city centre hotel for a second year in a row.
Free Trade Hall: 8 April 1971 Leeds Leeds Town Hall: 10 April 1971 Surbiton: Shoreditch Town Hall: 12 April 1971 London BBC Television Centre: 15 April 1971 Frankfurt: West Germany Volksbildungsheim 16 April 1971 Böblingen: Sporthalle: 17 April 1971 Saarbrücken: Saarland Hall: 18 April 1971 Hamburg: Hamburg Music Hall 24 April 1971 Nelson ...
Leeds Town Hall concerts in the season 2014/15 included unaccompanied polyphony on Monday 27 October 2014 featuring the Missa Bel Amfitrit Altera by Lassus, Motets by William Byrd and a movement from the Requiem for six voices by Tomas Luis de Victoria followed by Sacred Choral Classics, a programme sub-titled "Jesu, Joy" and all that Jazz" on ...